Atticus

, patriarch of Constantinople in the beginning of the fifth century, was born at Sebastia, now Soustia,
a city of Armenia. He was first educated by the Macedonian monks in the principles of their sect, but when arrived
at riper years, he embraced the faith of the Catholic church.
In the year 406, being then a priest, he was chosen to
succeed St. Chrysostom, who had been deprived of the see
of Constantinople, but met with much obstruction from the
friends of Chrysostom, and from all the bishops of the East,
who considered Chrysostom as unjustly deprived, and refused to communicate with the new patriarch. Atticus,
upon this, procured an edict from the emperor to compel
them, but finding this produced no other effect than schism
and confusion, after the death of Chrysostom he ordered
his name to be put in the Diptychs, or ecclesiastical tables,
in which were inserted the names of persons who had died
in the peace and communion of the church, and those
names were read at the altar during divine service. He
also wrote to St. Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, earnestly intreating him to do the same, but Cyril answered that he
should by that step appear to condemn those who had deposed Chrysostom. Both these letters are extant in NicephorusCalixtus’s Ecclesiastical History. There is another
letter of his extant to Calliopius, by which he appears to
have been a man of moderate principles towards those who
differed from him in opinion. There are likewise some
fragments of a homily on the birth of Christ, in the general
collection of the Councils, and a fragment of a letter of his
to Eupsychius, quoted by Theodoret. Writers differ much
in their estimate of his general character and learning. 2

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